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Theodore Roosevelt agrees that Americans should be "Americans and nothing else" but criticizes Ernest Brucken for betraying this principle by organizing and threatening to use the German American vote. German American organizations and pacifists have joined together and forced the gover...

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Estanislao Severo Zeballos for his letter. In response, Roosevelt notes that actions of Great Britain against American merchandise shipments are of "insignificant importance" compared to the aggression that Germany displayed in the invasion of Belgium and the m...

It is difficult to "chasten" your own side during a crisis as it will lead to accusations of assisting the enemy. Theodore Roosevelt has had to speak unpleasantly about his countrymen and much of what Frederick Scott Oliver has been writing about the British also applies to Americans. R...

Theodore Roosevelt hopes that Senator Lodge is appointed Secretary of State. He views Lodge and Elihu Root as the only Republicans fit for the position. However, Roosevelt was distressed by a recent speech that Root delivered suggesting that public opinion can restrain a "wrong-doing nation....

Theodore Roosevelt asks Henry Cabot Lodge if he previously wrote to Lodge in detail about his handling of the Algeciras Conference and the Alaskan Boundary dispute. If this is the case, Roosevelt requests to see the letters.

Theodore Roosevelt agrees that President Wilson has no conviction and would declare war if he thought it would secure his reelection. Roosevelt criticizes the Wilson administration's policies on dual nationality and its failure to defend American citizens that are being held in foreign nation...

Theodore Roosevelt agrees that good people can "be on exactly opposite sides of every question." For example, his mother's family fought for the Confederacy and she was an "unreconstructed rebel to the day of her death." Roosevelt denies he favors any foreign nation and pr...